More than 200 recipes for family-style meals are featured in Keller's cookbook, which was influenced by the menu of his casual restaurant Ad Hoc in Yountville, California. Throughout, photographs in full color. "Spectacular is the word for Keller's latest...," according to an IACP and James Beard Award winner and New York Times bestseller. try not to miss it."
-- "A book of approachable dishes made really, really well," according to people.
-- Thomas Keller provides family-style recipes that can be used on a daily or weekly basis in The New York Times. In the book that every home cook has been waiting for, the renowned Thomas Keller takes his imagination to the American comfort foods that are closest to his heart. These foods include flaky biscuits, chicken pot pies, New England clam bakes, and cherry pies that are so delicious and remind one of their childhood that they rival Proust's madeleines. In addition to revolutionizing American haute cuisine with his restaurants The French Laundry in Yountville, California, and Per Se in New York, Keller is equally adept at creating simpler dishes.
More than 200 recipes for family-style meals are featured in Ad Hoc at Home, a cookbook based on the menu of his casual restaurant in Yountville. Serving truck-stop staples like Potato Hash with Bacon and Melted Onions and grilled cheese sandwiches as well as heartier fare like beef Stroganoff and roasted spring leg of lamb, Keller is at his most playful here. The great chef teaches basic kitchen skills in fun, full-color photographs. Here, Keller shows how to perfectly shape a basic hamburger, truss a chicken, or dress a salad. Best of all, Ad Hoc at Home is filled with quicker and simpler recipes that will be embraced by both kitchen novices and more experienced cooks who want the ultimate recipes for American comfort food classics, whereas Keller's previous best-selling cookbooks were intended for the ambitious advanced cook.